Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] Sob. Here I go again.

[Sam R. <sro...@un...>]

Quoting gr...@gr..., on Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 02:25:56PM -0700:
> and Steven Arnold wrote:
> >Dumb question -- you _do_ have the latest xcode installed, and you 
> >_can_ compile other packages, right?
> 
> LOL. I don't think that's a dumb question at all. My /usr/bin directory 
> has gcc-3.3 in it, but since so much Unix style installing is a "just 
> type this line, everything will work fine, you don't need to know 
> what's really going on", I have no idea what other dependencies are 

And it usually works like that, on Unix. You're using OS X, its an odd
variant, with many strangenesses, for example, it doesn't actually come
with the development tools installed and automatically updated like the
rest of the s/w. Maybe one day Apple will see fit to use their s/w
updater for development tools...

I feel the pain of installing unix software on my OS X machine at home,
like you, and I develop full-time on Linux at work, so I'm pretty
familiar with "unix", but that doesn't always help. Eventually, enough
OS X users will submit patches to developers, and things will work
out-of-the-box more for them, but remember its still a fringe OS, from a
Unix point-of-view.

Cheers,
Sam